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So while I plan out what my induction and exhaust setup with consist of I thought it best to get the alternator sorted. The goldwing engine originally had its alternator mounted off the back of the engine on a seperate casing now removed and driven via one of the many gears that resided within this casing between the engine and the clutch area. That area is now taken up by the bellhousing I have built and the alternator has to go on the front of the engine (which now the back ? of the engine as it sits in the imp..) and be driven off a crankshaft pulley that does not exist. This is what it looks like .. That little round cover hides the main cambelt drive pulleys and has a belt guide plate marked with various timing marks for setting up the ignition.. Under that pressed steel disc resides the first of the pulleys. Sandwiched between the pulleys is a 12 tooth trigger wheel - handy for my planned engine management on a six. I'll replace it with a 36-1 wheel though. So I need to machine up a few bits to allow the crank to run a mini v belt pulley and drive the Honda alternator which I had picked up at the local wreckers will sit about here... At another wreckers I found a pressed steel 5pk pulley from a power steering pump that was about the right diameter, had a flat mounting face and bolted in place with 4 little bolts. Ideal for my plan. I cut it down to suit a 3pk belt.. Then I popped a big lump of steel bar I luckily had left over from some other job into the lathe and machined up a hub with a locating extension on one side to match the inside of the cambelt pulley, of which which extends beyond the crankshaft nose by about 3mm. It drives , via a pin pushed into hub, off the hole in the cambelt pulley, which is there to locate the original timing plate.. The other side of this hub I bored out as far as I could whilst still allowing enough meat to bolt the pulley on. This hub then bolts onto the crankshaft, eccentrically located by the camshaft pulley and held fast by the crankbolt.. Then I machined an alloy 'plug' that fits snug into the bored out hub, machined on the end to centrally locate the steel pulley, rather then rely on the bolts.. And all lined up... So now I have a front drive pulley. Yay. Next up is making some sort of way to mount the alternator securely and not too ugly considering its going to be right there, centrally on view. Starting the mount by making lots of little tiny bits of alloy to tread about the workshop with this tool... I cut some strong alloy plate and mounted it to the top of the engine using several of the conveniently placed cast in mounting points scattered about the place on top of the engine. Thanks Honda I had to add a support on the front, easily bolted to the cambelt housing. Now I had a place that the alternator brackets could be bolted to. I just made it up as I went along and machined bits and pieces until I had what I was looking for. I wanted it to look a mix of between sort of factory and sort of 'race car'. I had lots of fun making more alloy swarf.. Of course I cut my plate too narrow... Eventually I ended up with all these bits to piece together... Together they made this.. But before I plonked the alternator in place I had to clean it. It looked horrid and had obviously resided in a Honda of some ilk with some serious oil leaks. It was also a bit corroded and things didn't want to pull apart too easily. I made a bespoke little bearing puller.. The filthy alloy castings came up nice with a petrol bath.. and even nicer with some wire brushing... While it was apart I cleaned up the slip rings... Painted the centre black. It will possibly be repainted in Imp blue at a later date, as a treat if the engine swap works out ok. Its just a look I quite like - call me 90s boy. Bolted it all back together, complete with a new main bearing that I happened to have in stock (must be one of the most common bearings ever -35/15/10) Then excitedly bolted it in place. My Honda goldwing now has a standard alternator mounted in a pretty normal fashion and it looks nice and neat... With that sorted I can move onto making the cooling pipes and induction setup. I have still not fully made my mind up on what route I'll be taking here but I'll probably to bite the bullet and click buy now on a set of itbs so at least I have something to play with and go from there. I need to find a set of suitable top feed injectors. Something around 200cc at a guess. The standard Honda goldwing 1800 items look like they'd be ok and pretty compact. I'll be making the mounting seats to suit, which I'll then weld in place on the stock intake runners. Fuel rail made to suit.

Don't forget the dumpy

This ^ is actually a thing. Perhaps @Thousand Dollar Supercar needs to go faster...

If you add an electric motor to that rear passenger side window you could wind it down from the comfort of your seat and listen to the doort noises as you hoon through Wakefield at 95kph whilst stuffing a Wakefield pie into your gob and making farmer spec gang signs at Brent in his gumboots, standing next to his jacked up LN hilux with the dog box (filled with another load of dogs about to get lost) parked in the layby talking to Tracy, from the local CRT, in her cowshit covered carib.

Also - when you're at nats can I flick you $3 so you can take me for a 5 min drive? I want to experience living like a king just for a fleeting moment.

Plus 1 for accident pics not working?

The graphs are strong in this one.

oooh... 190bhp on stock cg13 internals...

Oh and I'll just plonk this advert here. I'm not surprised they sold something like 500 of these when you see such quality advertising!...

They are quite a nice wheel eh. Not exactly what we are after but nice enough as an option to try out for now. It's a bit like 'got some alloys that came with a free car'. Cleaned them up and they've come up pretty good. They look heaps better on a lowered car and the grip from the 55 aspect firestones is much better. Update soon but here's a sneaky pic.

I'll just put this here... It must be noted that this gentleman has a body not unlike mine (except he's more muscly...and browner)

They look OK with the top down but fucking terrible with it up. But Imo all verts look a bit shit with the tops up, mx5s etc included.

My turn..

....nips off to instagram and types in cabriolet

Oh that's handy to know. But still will try to fix for laughs. See how terrible I can bodge it..

A month or so ago our friendly local wreckers gave us a heads up on a K11 cabriolet they might be getting in. "Its owner had a whoopsy, smashed the front guard in and needs a bit of work. Reg and wof'd. Would you be interested in it?.." "yes" was the obvious answer. They collected it today, gave me a phone call and we were at the yard as quick as a flash. This beauty greeted us.. First thing we both spotted were the wheels. Even covered in dirt they still looked new. Pretty nice look and we thought they'd suit a yellow car better. Good tyres too. 185/55 15 are about 10mm bigger OD then the 175/70 13s we currently have on Minky and Martha. Might have to try them out for size... if we bought the car that is. Best check it over and not get carried away. Looked over the rest. Needs a guard, bonnet needs straightening in the front corner, headlight bracket is broken and the windscreen is cracked. Cant tell on the rest- test drive will show up things but the chassis legs looked ok. I think the guard/light/bonnet took the brunt of the shunt. Worst thing is a smashed drivers side window. Not exactly one of these cabs on every street corner so that could be a search as its quite different in shape. But I could just throw a plastic one in for now. Wing mirror smashed off, no doubt into many little pieces. Again - not the same as other k11s. Checked the windscreen size and it appears to be the same as a bog standard k11. Phew. We had a quick skim over the rest of the car, because in our minds we'd already 'bought' it by now - for the wheels alone and little dose of shits and giggles to even just own it, sample the k11 drop top life and have a laugh no matter what happens. YOLO. 1.3 with only 126k on the clock. Neat. Oh. Nissan N-CVT slushbox. Not so neat but how bad could it be? Ka-ching. Sold! I'll drive it home. We grabbed a guard and wing mirror (I'll cobble together something that satisfies the the legal requirements of having both mirrors but it might not look pretty) and put our name on the screen that remains on the k11 we've now been robbing for quite some time. I fastened the loose guard liners with cable ties, checked the coolant (oooh -strut brace!) and kicked the tyres. With the top lowered (its electric!) I cruised off into the evening sun, the huge exhaust tip droning away, enhancing the wonderful monotone revs holding of the CVT. Watching the gauges like a hawk (oooooh - a full tank of petrol. $500 k11 was suddenly only $374 * ). Temp sat bang on. Everything works. Steering seems fine. Doesn't pull. Wheels seem ok. No shakes there. But wow- scuttle shake. Not terrible but noticeable. Main thing is its fun! Heater works sweet as which was a good thing on another crisp clear and cool Tasman evening in winter (apparently winter. I'll stick with late summer) Once happy that Mandy, her name decided almost as soon as Hannah had paid for her, was not going to lead me off into a hedge or die in a cloud of steam I was able to relax and just enjoy the ride. I felt no need to drive fast. I cruised along, noticing many looks from other drivers, no doubt wondering what the backstory was for the funny little car that looks like a March k11 but is a drop top and has one front side caved in, no bumper, a headlight hanging at an angle and its mirror smashed off. I fumbled with the stereo. Does it work? Ooh the previous owner had left a cd in it. What's going to be this evenings music??? Bruno Mars. Bloody perfect! I cranked it up loud and rang my fingers through my hair. Hannah took some pics as we cruised to the beach for a photo shoot. Sadly the sun was gone from the beach so took some pics near the forestry.. Drove home. Parked it inside because no side window and a frankly threadbare looking roof does not a rain tight car make. More pics. Its better side (like...has a mirror) The modified exhaust looks terrible and sits too low off centre. Friend at wreckers wants it so we'll put a stock on in place. Less CVT drone for better living. The donkey up front... Someone bought a Nissan sticker pack from Bob's $2 auto emporium ... Huge boot.. Pull a lever and pop the back seat down for the skis/ironing board/golf clubs/ french sticks... Pretty much a Jaguar interior... Its those little things... Wow. What an afternoon. Plans are to fix it, drive it, enjoy it. Then sell it on for someone else to enjoy... ...he says now. Oh and pinch them wheels to try out for size. Not totally set on the style/size yet until they are washed and fitted to Minky.

At least 4 inches more...

Those hands of his. For such strong stubby fingers they have such a delicate touch.

Buying a cheap cable from ali x stress and it crapping out after a year = meh Buying a pricy cable from Barry, that works perfectly for the rest of your life plus you got Barry sharns and have a new friend = priceless.

That friend of a friend makes good coffee too. Lovely big cuddly jovial fella as well @sidewaysickness would agree.

That's what the stuff I found looked a bit like. I was wondering how the fuck anything like that got in there.

1989 (ish) Nissan caravan 2.7 Diesel . I replaced the fuel filter on one. It had been dropped at customers by AA who insisted it was a clogged filter. Customer got a filter and I replaced it. It started straight away idled perfectly and drove fine to start with but a couple of minutes into the test drive it started to falter a few times before eventually clearing its throatand it ran sweet as. I double checked and just thought it must have been an airlock. Ran great after that but I told the owner about it and warned that there may well be some other issues rearing their heads. Customer has just rang and its still playing up. Same thing - fuel staving. Ran sweet for a few ks and then start running out of power. Still always on all four but like its just not getting any diesel to the main pump. He managed to get it back home after a good rev up. Its not here right now. Do they have a separate lift pump from the tank to the filter assembly (located behind the drivers seat on this, cunt of a place) or does the main injector pump draw the fuel through? I cant think of anything else to look at other than look for possible holes in the feed line that might be drawing air.

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